What's a good desktop computer brand?

Egg · Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:41 am

And I have no idea if it's a good one or how to do much with it. It's the first one I've owned. I used to just post on here from my phone. It's an HP but that's all I know about it.

UPDATE JULY 2017: This thread is now about what brand desktop computer I should or shouldn't buy.

Majiffy · Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sun Mar 16, 2014 6:07 am

Mr. Flay · Post Post #2 (ISO) » Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:21 pm

Control Panel -> System. See the specs.

Zachrulez · Post Post #3 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:54 am

In post 2, Mr. Flay wrote:Control Panel -> System. See the specs.

It's a lot more exciting than that in windows 8 if you forgo the metro screen. (Getting to the control panel from desktop view anyway.)

Mr. Flay · Post Post #4 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:50 am

I am blissfully ignorant of Windows 8. I was hoping Egg had been spared that pain as well.

Egg · Post Post #5 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:57 am

No clue.

Zachrulez · Post Post #6 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:41 am

In post 4, Mr. Flay wrote:I am blissfully ignorant of Windows 8. I was hoping Egg had been spared that pain as well.

Unfortunately I am not.

I actually bought a 2nd OEM of 7 to downgrade our laptop cause I was sick of all the random things that 8 does.

In post 5, Egg wrote:No clue.

If you have windows 8, it will look similar to this when you boot it up.

Egg · Post Post #7 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:58 am

Oh yeah I get that if I left click start instead of right clicking it. It keeps messing me up when I try to shut it down

Nexus · Post Post #8 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:19 am

I like Windows 8

saulres · Post Post #9 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:41 am

Ah, so

you're

the one!

CooLDoG · Post Post #10 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:45 am

In post 8, Nexus wrote:I like Windows 8

said no one ever.

bv310 · Post Post #11 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:02 am

I like the concept of Windows 8, especially for casual laptop users, but holy shit is the execution bad.

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #12 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:19 am

Does it wear a hat? If no, get your money back.

crywolf20084 · Post Post #13 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 12:39 pm

I love windows 8.... on my tablet.

CooLDoG · Post Post #14 (ISO) » Mon Mar 17, 2014 1:20 pm

In post 11, bv310 wrote:I like the
concept
of Windows 8, especially for casual laptop users, but holy shit is the execution bad.

key word underlined.

But really, laptops are sorta the thing now a days. Soon you will buy an attache made specifically for it. Then you will buy an extra battery. Then you will acquire a portable mouse. Next you will wind up having an external hard drive full of nice things that you carry around everywhere you go. Next you won't have any money.

Moral of the story, toss the thing out the window before it eats your soul.

Zachrulez · Post Post #15 (ISO) » Tue Mar 18, 2014 3:05 am

In post 11, bv310 wrote:I like the concept of Windows 8, especially for casual laptop users, but holy shit is the execution bad.

I will never understand why they couldn't have done everything they did with 8 while allowing you to retain the ability to use the thing like windows 7.

Umbrage · Post Post #16 (ISO) » Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:16 am

CooLDoG · Post Post #17 (ISO) » Tue Mar 18, 2014 3:57 pm

In post 15, Zachrulez wrote:
In post 11, bv310 wrote:I like the concept of Windows 8, especially for casual laptop users, but holy shit is the execution bad.
I will never understand why they couldn't have done everything they did with 8 while allowing you to retain the ability to use the thing like windows 7.

Ohh they could have. Make an option: Windows 7 mode. right when you log in, just like when Ubuntu asks you what desktop environment you want.

Majiffy · Post Post #18 (ISO) » Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:09 pm

In post 4, Mr. Flay wrote:I am blissfully ignorant of Windows 8. I was hoping Egg had been spared that pain as well.

Whats a Windows 8?

CooLDoG · Post Post #19 (ISO) » Tue Mar 18, 2014 5:48 pm

The above post is more witty than I first thought it was. Good job.

JDGA · Post Post #20 (ISO) » Wed Mar 19, 2014 4:52 am

Windows 8 is pretty decent overall once you remove any trace of Metro from it.
You can't uninstall the Store, but remove all the other Metro apps and it just becomes Windows 7 with performance enhancements (plus), more keyboard shortcuts (plus), and a full-screen start menu (beats scrolling for 30 seconds down the all programs menu, so plus).

CooLDoG · Post Post #21 (ISO) » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:48 am

can I get a start menu... that doesn't cover the full fucking screen? Is that too much to ask?

Zachrulez · Post Post #22 (ISO) » Wed Mar 19, 2014 8:00 am

In post 21, CooLDoG wrote:can I get a start menu... that doesn't cover the full fucking screen? Is that too much to ask?

http://www.classicshell.net

It's not perfect, but it worked reasonable well for me. I still gave up on 8 because an intro to windows screen popped up randomly after several boots that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of completely. (I think it was describing cloud related features, I could never describe it well enough to figure out how to find anything that would allow me to disable it.) Also because you still get some metro functionality creep in even after you completely disable the metro interface via classicshell.

CooLDoG · Post Post #23 (ISO) » Wed Mar 19, 2014 2:31 pm

Yeah, I'm going to hold onto windows 7 for the foreseeable future.

shaft.ed · Post Post #24 (ISO) » Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:08 am

laptop is starting to overheat
do I chance cracking it open and doing it myself causing irreparable harm, or do I overpay some smelly gamer to do it?